Sonnet

    THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT ON MY PALE FACE

                 THE WIND BLOWS SOFTLY AGAINST MY FAIR SKIN

     THE DAY FEELS AS DELICATE AS FINE LACE

       LYING IN THIS MEADOW FEELS LIKE A WIN

           BIRDS FLYING OVERHEAD ATTRACT MY MIND

      THE COLORS IN THE SKY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL

       BEING HERE IN THIS PLACE IS SO VERY KIND

          THE BLOSSOMING FLOWERS ARE SO BLISSFUL 

             TALL GRASS TICKLES THE BACK OF MY BARE LEGS

           IS IT WRONG TO WANT TO STAY FOR A WHILE?

          CAN I STAY HERE? PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME BEG

          I’M JUST GONNA NAP IN THIS BIG OLE HAY PILE

MY EYES GET FUZZY AS THEY WAKE TO SEE

     OH MY THIS CAN’T HAPPEN, THIS MUST NOT BE!

Work Cited:
"The Sonnet is a Versatile Poem of Fourteen Lines." Literature: A Introduction to Reading and Writing.    Ed. Edgar V. Roberts 9th ed. New York: Pearson, 2009. 900. Print.

Jabberwocky

"Jabberwocky" was my favorite poem that we read in class. It was interesting to read, it was kind of like reading a new language with some of the words that were used. I loved how excited Ms. Watson got while and after she read the poem that's what made this poem stick out in my mind. It's an enjoyable poem that's just fun to read. Me being a person that dislikes poem actually liked this one.

Poetry to me

When I think of poetry I think of a short story that rhymes. The whole rhyme scheme is the entertaining part and the only reason I read poetry. I don't really like reading poetry especially the love kind that's super hard to read or understand really. After the poetry I've had to write lately I hate writing it now. Writing poetry is difficult so I think I'll just stick to reading it.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

This was my favorite story to read even if it was pretty sad and the poor innocent family died I enjoyed reading it. After all the stories we had read this one was easy to understand and had normal English in it so it all made sense and didn't seem so many big words I didn't know.  In this story a family of a husband and wife with their two children and grandmother take off on a vacation knowing a misfit is on the loose killing people. They end up in a car accident and the misfit finds them and the family thinks hes a good man that's going to hep him. He ends up killing the whole family and that is so disturbing to me. I can't understand what would make someone so awful enough to kill someone let alone a whole family with young children. This world is full of crazy people now and I don't feel safe going anywhere alone. My parents never want me going places alone day or night. With all the violence in the world now I don't blame them. I wish it could be safer to travel down the street or even go out in public I hate the feeling of not being able to trust people. When I stop at a stop light and there's someone sitting at the street corner I always go to lock my doors and see if there's any other people around which is wrong but that's how it is nowadays. We all need to make the world a safer place to live in.

Works Cited:
O' Connor, Flannery. "A Good Man is Hard to Find". 9th ed. New York:Longman: Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, 2009. 576-585. Print.

"Story of an Hour"

Well in this story Mrs. Mallard dies from the joy that kills which they thought was the fact she found out her husband was still alive. Once she heard the news of her husbands death she just wanted to be left alone and after thinking about it for a while she realized how much happier her life would be without her husband there. So she got excited for her new life to start without him. I wouldn't want to be with anyone that made me so unhappy that I would actually enjoy their death but apparently she was. Once she found out her husband was still alive she died. Poor woman never got to enjoy her freedom.

"The Lottery"

"The Lottery" was the story I chose for my presentation in class thinking it would be a good story.  After reading the story I was definitely wrong, if you won the lottery you were stoned to death. That is just crazy to me I could not imagine stoning someone to death, I just don't see the point behind it. In the story it mentioned other towns were stopping the lottery but some thought that was a bad idea and the people were stupid for doing it but in my opinion those people were extremely smart. I would have hated to be the one to win that lottery, even children were using the stones to kill the winner. Now a days the lottery is completely different which I am so thankful for.

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd was a movie about revenge, Sweeney Todd formerly known as Benjamin Barker, came back to London to get his revenge on Judge Turpin for taking his family from him. When he arrives Ms. Lovett makes Todd think his wife Lucy is dead so that fuels his fire even more.  Throughout the movie Todd is killing people in his barbershop above Ms. Lovetts store then sending the body down to the basement for Ms.Lovett to bake them in her pies which is just so gross. She serves them to customers and they absolutely  love them. Its hard for me to think about eating another person in my pie so that part of the movie was disturbing to me. I didn't mind all the killing cause Ive seen movies much worse and the blood kinda looked fake to me. Todd uses his razors which he calls his "friends" and at one point in the movie said "At last! My arm is complete again! ". During the movie they sang which was entertaining to me, I liked the singing it made the movie.  The tunes and lyrics were funny and it made sense with the scene that was taking place. Overall I really enjoyed the movie and thought it was really good except for the ending. I didn't want Todd to die especially killed with his own "friends" his razors, I thought him and Ms. Lovett should have lived happily ever after with Toby.

Works Cited:  Sweeney Todd:  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.  Screenplay Stephen Sondheim.  Dir. Tim Burton.  2007. Dreamworks, 2008.  DVD

A Midsummer Night's Dream

I was picked first to suggest a play to read and I wasn't prepared at all I just looked down on the first page and picked A Midsummer Night Dream.  I realize now that was a mistake I wish I never would have suggested or voted for this play. I didn't enjoy much about this play at all it was so confusing and hard to read. Once I started reading it I just wanted to shut  my book and never look at it again. I had to purchase the translation book or I knew I would be doomed.  After I got it all translated it started to make sense and wasn't as bad since I knew what was going on. It had a happy ending and everyone was with the right person even after Hermia's father threatened to kill her if she didn't marry Demetrius.  With all the drama in the middle with Lysander and Demetrius falling in love with Helena I was worried everyone was gonna end up with the wrong person. I'm glad it got resolved and so happy I wont be reading that again. The movie was more interesting than the play so that wasn't so bad but they still talked funny and it was hard to understand. 

Arsenic and Old Lace

Finding out we were going to be watching a black and white movie on the first day was not how i wanted to start off my day back. I wasn't really looking forward to watching this movie but it turned out to be pretty good.  The beginning was kinda boring to me so I didn't pay much attention and when it got started I got interested.  Finding out that the aunts Abby and Martha were murderers was a shock to me.  I never would have expected them to kill anyone but they did it with good intentions.  They were smart about it and had compassion for them so it didn't seem like a bad thing.  I thought Jonathan was a very strange character and Dr. Einstein was creepy too.  All the irony in this movie made it so hard to predict I never knew what was going to happen next.  Overall I liked the movie and it makes me want to watch more black and white movies.  I actually wouldn't mind watching another one in class sometime.